CAMPAIGNS IN SOUTH-EAST ASIA 1941-42 Hong Kong, Malaya and Sarawak & Borneo Official History of the Indian Armed Forces in the Second World War 1939-45 Campaigns in the Eastern Theatre

The volume “Campaigns in South-East Asia 1941-42” describes the expulsion of the British Commonwealth Forces from South-East Asia by the Japanese. In a way it is a story of military debacle suffered by the British. The narrative outlines the rapid withdrawal of the Indian, British and Australian forces from Malaya and Singapore. The British were compelled to surrender a vast land mass of Asia from the Netherlands East Indies to Burma to the Japanese.